| Summary: | shared text gets opened with vim in an xterm | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kdeconnect | Reporter: | Marcel Partap <mpartap> |
| Component: | common | Assignee: | Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | kde, nicolas.fella |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian unstable | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-kde/commit/62e2c4c1ea8d51b7c4da6d469677ebe6595c803f | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | |
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Description
Marcel Partap
2018-09-28 09:05:04 UTC
When plain text is sent (which isn't a file), it uses kate (to which you can pass data via stdin). When Kate isn't installed (which I assume is the case for your xfce setup) then it will download it into a temp filder.
The file will be something like /tmp/kdeconnectd.something, but lack a ".txt" suffix and as such there's no guarantee a "text editor" will open it since it tries to guess from the contents. This can probably be fixed by doing tmpFile.setFileTemplate(QStringLiteral("kdeconnect-XXXXXX.txt")); in the plugin
As Kai mentioned, when Kate isn't found then the default program associated with text/plain is opened (which probably is vim on your system). I've posted https://phabricator.kde.org/D15813 which 1) Uses the default editor even if Kate is available and 2) may improve the MIME type detection with a .txt extension Hey thanks for the swift reaction! Even without .txt extension, mime type seems to be correctly identified, but it might be a good idea nevertheless. by ways of looking at `sh -xv /usr/bin/xdg-open sample.txt` I figured out it invokes exo-open on xfce, which does have a `exo-preferred-applications` settings dialog but that can only configure WebBrowser, MailReader, FileManager & TerminalEmulator. So I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_MIME_Applications#mimeapps.list and from that, solved my issue by creating a `/etc/xdg/mimeapps.list` with [Removed Associations] text/plain=vim.desktop;diffuse.desktop;gvim.desktop;libreoffice-writer.desktop;okularApplication_txt.desktop Text sent to kdeconnect now indeed does open with the appropriate mousepad xfce text editor.. which actually makes me `apt install kate` ; ) Git commit 47749792f32f4500a9efd3e3644309830723db2a by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 08/02/2019 at 23:00. Pushed by nicolasfella into branch 'master'. Respect users prefered text editor for shared text Summary: A user may have Kate installed but another editor set as default for text/plain. Respect that. Also add .txt extension to the temp file name to make mime-type detection easier. Test Plan: Set default text editor to Kate -> Text opens in Kate Set default text editor to Atom -> Text opens in Atom Reviewers: #kde_connect, broulik, apol Reviewed By: #kde_connect, broulik, apol Subscribers: kdeconnect Tags: #kde_connect Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15813 M +1 -1 CMakeLists.txt M +1 -0 plugins/share/CMakeLists.txt M +8 -2 plugins/share/shareplugin.cpp https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-kde/commit/47749792f32f4500a9efd3e3644309830723db2a Git commit 62e2c4c1ea8d51b7c4da6d469677ebe6595c803f by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 13/02/2019 at 17:43. Pushed by nicolasfella into branch 'qmlsettings'. Respect users prefered text editor for shared text Summary: A user may have Kate installed but another editor set as default for text/plain. Respect that. Also add .txt extension to the temp file name to make mime-type detection easier. Test Plan: Set default text editor to Kate -> Text opens in Kate Set default text editor to Atom -> Text opens in Atom Reviewers: #kde_connect, broulik, apol Reviewed By: #kde_connect, broulik, apol Subscribers: kdeconnect Tags: #kde_connect Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15813 M +1 -1 CMakeLists.txt M +1 -0 plugins/share/CMakeLists.txt M +8 -2 plugins/share/shareplugin.cpp https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-kde/commit/62e2c4c1ea8d51b7c4da6d469677ebe6595c803f |